34 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



and simple throughout its whole course to the outer margin, with a 

 slight bend at its junction with the short disco-cellular which con- 

 nects it with the median veinlet : bristle in the male simple, retained 

 by a corneous retinaculum arising from the hind side of the sub- 

 costal vein, compound in the female, retained by a bunch of scales 

 arising from the fore side of the median vein. Fore legs short ; 

 tibiae with a strong sharp spine about the middle ; first joint of the 

 tarsi about the same length as the tibiae, the four rest equal in 

 length to the first. Middle legs with the tibiae about two-thirds the 

 length of the tarsi, bispinose at the tips ; first joint of the tarsi 

 nearly equal to all the rest. Hind legs with the tibiae about two- 

 thirds the length of the tarsi, bispinose at the tips and furnished also 

 with two spines beyond the middle; first joint of the tarsi longer 

 than the rest combined. Claws of all the tarsi simple ; tarsi spi- 

 nose. Abdomen cylindrical, arched in the male, tufted at its tip, 

 in the female tapering to a point." — Doubleday. 



Group 1. 



Club of the antennae rounder and less mucronate than in the 

 second group, and apparently also destitute of the tuft of scales at 

 the point. 



1. Synemon Sophia. 



Nigro-fusca ; alcesubtus lutece fasciis ramosis nigris ; anticce supra 

 nigro-fuscce cinereo varies ; postica nigra vittis tribus macu- 

 laribus luteis. 



Hesperia ? Sophia, White, Greyh Exped. Austral. Append. 474, f. 7. 

 Synemon Sophia, Doubleday, Lort's Discov. Austral. Append, i. 516, 

 pi. 3, f. 5. 



" Fore wings of the male brown, clouded with gray and fuscous- 

 brown, a dark cloud near the base, another at the end of the discal 

 areolet followed by a white dot, the veins grayish-white. Hind wings 

 black at the base with an oval yellow spot, a macular yellow band 

 beyond the middle, followed by a series of yellow spots. Cilia yel- 

 lowish towards the anal angle. Head grayish. Antennae black, 

 varied with white. Thorax gray. Abdomen black at the base, 

 whitish beyond. Female with the fore wings nearly black, clouded 

 with light bluish-gray scales, arranged on the margin into a band 

 divided by a series of black spots ; areolet with a white dot at the 

 tip ; a short macular band beyond the areolet commencing on the 



